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January 17, 2012January 16, 2012

Catching up on recent agency moves

It seems the agency folks are keeping moving companies busy around the Treasure Valley lately. The most recent moves:

After a brief layover in a temporary space, Stoltz Marketing Group settled into their new office space in Suite 410 of the Cornerstone Building at 9th and River – 913 W. River St.

DaviesMoore has also found itself a new home, in Suite 300 of the 805 Idaho Building, on the corner of 8th and Idaho – 805 W. Idaho St.

And as is usually the case, I’m sure both shops will find random boxes that need to be unpacked for the next year or two…

[disclosure – by day I can be found at Stoltz Marketing Group]

June 3, 2011June 3, 2011

There’s a Whole Lot of Moving Going On

Maybe it’s the time of year. Perhaps it’s the amount of vacant office space available. Or it could be something entirely different. No matter how you look at it, there’s a whole lot of moving going on in the agency world lately.

For example:

Red Sky Public Relations: Red Sky recently (well, within the past six months or so) moved their office from the space on 9th Street to what used to be Balihoo’s space down in BoDo.

Mitchell + Palmer: The folks at Mitchell + Palmer have moved north just a bit, leaving their space on Hill Road for what we presume to be a larger location off of Bogus Basin Road, and judging by the number of new faces around their shop, the extra space was sorely needed.

c308 Marketing: c308 left the familiar halls of the Hoff Building and moved into a space at 14th & Idaho, across from the WaterCooler.

Stoltz Marketing Group: After more than a decade on Main Street, above two restaurants – first Zutto, now Flatbread Community Oven – Stoltz Marketing Group is moving to the Cornerstone Building at 9th and River. Not one to mess with a trend, they’ll still be above a restaurant. This time, however, it’ll be a few floors up from Cottonwood Grille.

DaviesMoore: The most recent shop (that we know of, at least) to throw their hat into the moving ring, DaviesMoore recently signed a lease for space in the 805 Idaho Building (also known as the Boise National Bank Building), according to the listings in the Idaho Business Review. If I had to venture a guess, I’d suspect they’ll be moving by the end of the summer.

Are there others that we’ve missed?

UPDATE:

Glaring oversight on my part — Noot Group recently moved as well – from their space on Broadway to a new location in Bown Crossing. (Thanks for the reminder James).

November 9, 2010

New Hires at DaviesMoore

A recent stroll through the DaviesMoore website revealed a couple of new hires:

Jessica Moon has joined the agency as Account Services Assistant. She is a recent graduate of the College of Idaho with a B.A. in Business: Accounting & Finance.

Katie Johnson has also joined the agency as an Account Executive. Prior to joining DaviesMoore, she was most recently an Account Executive at Drake Cooper. Katie is a graduate of the University of Idaho with a B.S. in Communication, Advertising Option.

Congratulations to both.

disclosure

February 10, 2010February 10, 2010

In Memory: John Givens

The Idaho advertising community lost one of it’s founders with the passing on John Givens on Monday, February 1st, 2010.

Not familiar with the name? Unfortunately, neither was I until last week.

John Givens was a third-generation Boisean, a graduate of Boise High School and after service in the United States Naval Air Corp during World War II, a student at the Boise Junior College and the University of Idaho, among others.

John began his career in advertising in 1947, and in 1952 he founded Givens-Davies Advertising, Inc. with Kenneth R. Davies. He helped grow the agency to become one of the largest and most powerful in Idaho, and a major player in the Pacific Northwest. Note: Givens-Davies would later go on to become Davies-Rourke, and in its current form is known as DaviesMoore.

Later, he went on to form John Givens Advertising, Inc., and in 1988 was awarded the Silver Medal from the Boise Advertising Federation. John retired from advertising in 1987.

Among his many accomplishments, John was instrumental in coordinating public relations and fundraising efforts for the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, and creating the Idaho Governor’s Cup golf tournament scholarship fundraiser.

John is survived by five children, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two step-grandchildren.

A memorial service was held on Saturday, February 6th.

While I never had the chance to meet John Givens, I would like to offer a belated ‘thank you’ to him on behalf of the entire advertising and marketing community in Idaho for everything that he did over the years, and those that he helped guide and inspire.

A complete obituary is available here, if you’d like to read more.

January 3, 2010

Top Nine of 2009

Curious as to which Idaho Ad Agencies posts were the most popular last year? Well, I was. So below you’ll find the top posts of 2009, based on traffic to individual posts.

A couple of disclaimers: The site was moved over to it’s current location in April of last year, so numbers from the first few months could be a bit off. Also, since you can read individual posts on the home page without clicking through, that (most likely) has impacted the numbers as well.

But there you have it. And off we roll into 2010.

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